Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy country, where he was imprisoned. In all the howling vortex of dope-stories, nut-stories, crackpot theorizing, official and amateur speculation that the Hess flight evoked, only the New York World-Telegram affected to doubt Fact No. 1. The Telegram hired a series of detective storytellers to mastermind the Hess Case. One, Lee Wright of Publishers Simon & Schuster, opined that Hess wasn't Hess at all, but British Secret Agent...
...Every recording studio has, for its popular output, a mastermind who can spot a hit tune, lead an orchestra, tell whether a "take" (trial recording) is any good. Victor's mastermind is twinkling-eyed Leonard Joy, who has been in the game for 15 years. Last week his latest bossing and conducting job was on the counters: an album of songs and dialogue from the Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin musicomedy, Lady in the Dark, recorded by the star of the show, Gertrude Lawrence (6 sides; $2). Between this one and Decca's earlier album by Hildegarde, there...
...Friedrich E. Auhagen, former Columbia University professor, who was arrested as he was about to flee to Japan, had squealed, named taciturn, square-faced Drager as the mastermind. Dies Committee raids on German organization offices had produced confirming evidence...
...Shots." The Capone enterprises, which grossed $100,000,000 yearly, were organized by Johnny Torrio, whose fame has been unjustly eclipsed by his scar-faced successor. Says Asbury: "Johnny Torrio is unsurpassed in the annals of American crime; he was probably the nearest thing to a real mastermind that this country has yet produced." Torrio boasted, "I own the police," had uniformed officers guard his costlier liquor shipments. In five years of gang warfare 500 mobsters were assassinated. Sniffed Mayor Big Bill Thompson, "It's all newspaper talk...